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Cybercrime group worried over dwindling payments ... didn't they tell them to Always Be Closing?

In response to growing frustrations inside the LockBit organization, its leaders have overhauled the way they negotiate with ransomware victims going forward.…

CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA

Channel-focused cybersecurity company SonicWall is buying Virginia-based MSSP Solutions Granted – its first acquisition in well over a decade.…

Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions

The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years.…

Absence of arrests doesn't mean nothing's happening, cyber-cops insist

The FBI is applying "significant" resources to find members of the infamous Scattered Spider cyber-crime crew, which seemingly attacked a couple of high-profile casinos a few months ago and remains active, according to a senior bureau official.…

And that's not counting the incoming lawsuits

Rackspace's costs from last year's ransomware infection continue to mount: the cloud hosting biz told America's financial watchdog, the SEC, its total expenses to date regarding that cyberattack have reached $12 million – so far.…

Wild idea: Maybe Microsoft could introduce a Quality Copilot to stop pushing broken patches

Something likely to be absent from Microsoft's Ignite event is talk of a fix rolled out to deal with malfunctioning Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machines following a problematic update from the company.…

Ads for Slack and Cisco AnyConnect actually downloaded Nitrogen malware

Affiliates of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation are turning to malvertising campaigns to establish an initial foothold in their victims' systems.…

First time hard figure given on recovery costs for January incident

Royal Mail's parent company has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack.…

Linked to org that UK authorities found once failed its anti-money-laundering obligations

Swedish digital rights organization Qurium has discovered around 250 cloned websites and suggested they exist to drive people to China-linked gambling sites.…

Plus: Ransomware crooks file SEC complaint against victim

The Clorox Company's chief security officer has left her job in the wake of a corporate network breach that cost the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars.…

Exploits come with caveats, but Google says no fixes as user security should do the heavy lifting here

Novel weaknesses in Google Workspace have been exposed by researchers, with exploits potentially leading to ransomware attacks, data exfiltration, and password decryption.…

War of words escalates as deadline draws near

FBI director Christopher Wray made yet another impassioned plea to US lawmakers to kill a proposed warrant requirement for so-called "US person queries" of data collected via the Feds' favorite snooping tool, FISA Section 702.…

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Trying times for incident responders who battle fastest-ever ransomware blitz as attackers keep scrubbing evidence clean

Organizations are still failing to implement adequate logging measures, increasing the difficulty faced by defenders and incident responders to identify the cause of infosec attacks.…

Plus: VMware closes critical hole, Adobe fixes a whopping 76 flaws

Patch Tuesday  Heads up: Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday includes fixes for about 60 vulnerabilities – including three that have already been found and abused in the wild.…

23K nodes earned operator more than $500K – and now perhaps jail time

The FBI says it has dismantled another botnet after collaring its operator, who admitted hijacking tens of thousands of machines around the world to create his network of obedient nodes.…

Let's do the CacheWarp again

Boffins based in Germany and Austria have found a flaw in AMD's SEV trusted execution environment that makes it less than trustworthy.…

Sapphire Rapids, Alder Lake, and Raptor Lake chip families treated for 'Redundant Prefix'

Intel on Tuesday issued an out-of-band security update to address a privilege escalation vulnerability in recent server and personal computer chips.…

Royal alone scored $275M in past year as FBI, other agencies hot on merging trail

The US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released fresh guidance on the Royal ransomware operation, saying that evidence suggests it may soon undergo a long-speculated rebrand.…

Got a Confluence server? Listen up. Malware said to have wide-ranging capabilities

A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence.…